Digital Cropped Video is now possible and it is equivalent to putting a 3X multiplier on your lens without increasing the f stop (That is Magic, only with Magic Lantern) :

The Recording function is only available at 5X zoom, 10X is only used for precise focusing.

1. Make sure you have CF selected. 2. Switch your camera to Video Mode (flip the video lever to the left). Works in M, AV, TV modes.3. Press Q and select the 1920 @ 30 fps video specification from Canon Menu.4. Use the Joy stick to move and make "blue" the video mode.5. Scroll through the videos to 1920 30fps. If you do not use FPS override the camera defaults to Canon settings. See note 16. Press half shutter to return to Live View.7. Press the zoom button to 5X or 10X and focus your subject in LiveView. (If you skip this step you will not get the 3x higher resolutions) If you have not loaded the raw_rec module then:8. Press trash button and go to Modules Tab using your joystick or scroll wheel. (It is an icon with four little squares)9. Use the scroll wheel or joystick to highlight the raw_rec module and then press the set button to enable it.10. Reboot the camera, then press trash button and if the module loaded correctly you will see it in bright white with a green dot on the left.11. Scroll to Movie with the large scroll wheel and then to Raw video with the small scroll wheel.12. Enable RAW video by pressing the Set Button. Look at the video settings and also look near the bottom of the screen for information about CF speed requirements to meet current fps and frame size.13. Press Q and Set to chose the appropriate Resolution, or use the little scroll wheel to scroll from available options. If your card is not fast enough then select acceptable resolutions. Remember to look at the bottom of the screen to see how resolution affect card speed requirements.Note: If you pressed the zoom button in step 7 you can select higher resolutions such as: 2048x1152, 2240x1260, 2560x1320, 2880x1320, and 3584x132014. Scroll to Aspect ratio16:9 is the default. You can scroll with the little wheel or press Set to change it. By changing the aspect ratio the camera chooses an appropriate video height. Some heights are not the most common ones but these combinations offer better writing speeds. You may have to crop your video in post.15. (NOT AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW-->) If you want to record audio (wav file to SD card) scroll to Sound and select Separate WAV, or sync beep, or OFF16. Preview: Auto. Press Set to change it to: Canon, ML Grayscale, Hacked (see note 6)17. Digital dolly: OFF On to allow the recording area to scroll from left-to-right or up-down during cropped video or when recording at smaller resolutions then max (1920x1080) Use the Joystick to control the direction of the scroll.18. Frame skipping: OFF To continue recording even if skips frames then scroll to and select Allow.19. Card warm-up: OFF Press set to select a warm-up file size when camera boots. Some speed improvements obtained.20. Memory hack: OFF. Press Set to on This frees up more memory to get extra frames in the buffer.21. Small hacks: OFF to improve the use of memory to increase recording buffer.22. Next option, Playback After recording a RAW file you can preview it by coming back to this menu and scroll to Playback selection and pressing Set.23. Press Q and then move to Overlay and set Global Draw to OFF. See note 7.24. To get back to LV just press trash button or half shutter.25. To start and stop recording press the LV button

OPTION FOR 24/25 FPS RECORDING:

26. Move to the Movie tab and select FPS override with the scroll wheel. (see note 2 below)27. Press the Q button28. Change the Desired FPS to 23.97 using the small (top) scroll wheel.29. Move to the Optimize for with the large scroll wheel.30. Change to Exact FPS with the small scroll wheel.31. Press the Q button and then press the Set button (on the center of the large scroll wheel) to enable FPS override32. Now FPS should read 23.97.Technical notes:

Note 1: It is best to set the Canon video format to 1920 30 fps and then to set the fps speed via FPS Override. When you do this you will have very little variation in fps when you switch from zoom mode to standard mode.

Note 2: f you do not use FPS override the default fps for 5X zoom mode is 29.97, so if you want to record at a different fps you better set it here. Additionally it is always best to use FPS override to eliminate damaged frames.

Note 6. Canon preview is standard full color, ML Grayscale is in B&W and also shows the video in its final cropped view (used for framing), Hacked is special fast hack to increase card writing speed at the expense of freezing Live View.

Note 7. If you set Global Draw ON you will have a focus box that helps you frame the video properly for all resolutions, The drawback of this method is that it is only in black and white and sometimes it slows down LV.

Hot Tip: If you press the info button, it will disable Global Draw and you will clearly see the subject, but the framing is off so use the framing with GD ON. After you press info button you will have to press it three times to scroll back to the gray framing overlay.

If you set Global Draw OFF in zoom mode you get full color and real-time update.

and.. to get the zoom function to work in LV you need to "Enable" Live View shooting and also AF mode set to "Live mode", of course this is done in Canon menu. check your camera specifics to the zoom function working in Live View----------------------

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The beauty of this video is that there is ZERO loss of detail when compared to a photo taken a full resolution. Of course the photo covers the entire size of the sensor 5760x3840 pix while the video is just a small portion of the sensor in my case I am generating a video of 1920x1080 pix. There is no down-sampling of the sensor so the image is a 1:1 crop.

Since we are using 1920 pix out of the 5760 pix (width) the zoom factor is 5760/1920 = 3X.

3. Press the joystick 17 times to the left and 8 to the top to center the focusing box on the new cropped frame. (Hopefully this can be automated some day if there is an automated selection for Cropped Video settings.

It would be preferable to use the center of the sensor (center of the lens) for crop, as the best piece of the glass is it's center.

For instance just taking vignetting into account, the top left corner could be a stop less (EV) then the center. Currently in crop mode, that would mean using ISO 200 instead of ISO 100 for instance.

1. Took a photo a full RAW2. Took a video at 1920x1080 24 fps with Neutral Picture Style3. Took a standard RAW video at 1920x1080 24 fps5. Took a Zoomed RAW video at 5X at 1920x1080 24 fps (Cropped Digital Video)6. Extracted the dng frames from the RAW videos 7. Extracted the tiff frames from the MOV (canon) video8. Processed all frames in photoshop with following corrections:

DNG:1. Changed WB to 5500 and +6 Tint since this was the values from the CR2 file2. Took all sharpening out3. Opened to Photoshop and adjusted Levels4. Sharpened with Unsharp mask 50%, radious 0.9 pix, Threshold 0

CR2:1. Took all sharpening out3. Opened to Photoshop and adjusted Levels3. Opened to Photoshop and adjusted Levels4. Sharpened with Unsharp mask 50%, radious 0.9 pix, Threshold 0

Tiff:1. Opened to Photoshop and adjusted Levels2. Opened to Photoshop and adjusted Levels3. Sharpened with Unsharp mask 50%, radious 0.9 pix, Threshold 0

Final Comparison

CR2 versus Zoomed DNG

In the photo above it is clear that the detail of the zoomed RAW video is equal to the detail in the CR2 image.

Tiff versus no zoom DNG

In the above photo it is clear that the detail, dynamic range, noise, and sharpening characteristics of the normal RAW video is superior than MOV.

This might not be relevant, since I've only tested on the 600d, but would it be possible to just overlay a white framed box before recording for framing? That plus popping into the 10x zoom would be enough to get focus and framing. (The build I had only seemed to add the white frame box after recording was started unless I missed a feature?).

Please help!There is no crop video on my 5D3. I have used RenatoPhoto's instruction from the first post. When i press 5x zoom first and then LV button - nothing happens, but zero size raw file. If i press LV button first- recording starts, but when I press 5x zoom - recording stops. Raw settings 1920x1080. I have tried several later builds.

Please help!There is no crop video on my 5D3. I have used RenatoPhoto's instruction from the first post. When i press 5x zoom first and then LV button - nothing happens, but zero size raw file. If i press LV button first- recording starts, but when I press 5x zoom - recording stops. Raw settings 1920x1080. I have tried several later builds.